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Ike Okonta
Project Syndicate
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02/01/12
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With a corrupt and rudderless government, Africa's most populous country has resumed its dance on the edge of the precipice. Its poor and powerless citizens are demanding transparency and accountability.
Can Japan afford to maintain a nuclear-free society in the short-to-medium term without risk of rolling blackouts or energy insecurity?
Joseph Stiglitz
Project Syndicate
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11/04/11
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The protesters are asking for a democracy where people matter more than profits, and a market economy that delivers what it is supposed to within a frame of appropriate regulations.
By showing us the possibility of democracy in revolution, the occupations of 2011 have ignited a revolution in democracy, one that is redefining the meaning of both terms.
Nouriel Roubini
Project Syndicate
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10/13/11
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Any economic model that does not properly address inequality will eventually face a crisis of legitimacy. Unless the relative economic roles of the market and the state are rebalanced, the protests of 2011 will become more severe.
Jeffrey Sachs
Project Syndicate
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09/30/11
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The world's most successful economies today use high taxes to finance a high level of government services, balancing high prosperity with social justice and environmental sustainability.
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Richard Brubaker
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09/29/11
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While the global sustainability discussion is focused on carbon emissions, the Chinese people will continue working on problems that are tangible for them, such as health and safety.
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Kathryn M. Martorana
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09/09/11
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Strong natural resource management is essential for a young democracy, yet Guatemala's human rights advocates face death threats after a failed presidential debate on mining.
Higher gas prices, negligible energy security, more global warming: The logic stacks up against extending the Keystone tar sands pipeline. Will Secretary Clinton deny the permit?
Dani Rodrik
Project Syndicate
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08/10/11
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We may live in a post-industrial age, in which information technologies, biotech, and high-value services have become drivers of economic growth, but countries ignore the health of their manufacturing industries at their peril.
Peter Singer
Project Syndicate
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07/19/11
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Charting the progress of animal-welfare legislation around the world provides an indication of moral progress more generally.
From an ecological perspective, the gold standard has the attraction of linking economic growth to natural resource constraints, as well as the ability to instill financial discipline.
Guy Kahane
Project Syndicate
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06/29/11
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Humans have a limited innate capacity to deal with the ethical complexities of the modern world. Should we use the science of human morality to make people morally better?
Shashi Tharoor
Project Syndicate
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06/20/11
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India's strength as an aid provider is that it is not an over-developed power, but rather one whose own experience of development is both recent and familiar.
Roland Kupers
Project Syndicate
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05/02/11
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The strongest argument for why a nuclear renaissance is neither likely nor necessary? Cost.
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